GLOBAL is a common source code tag system for C, C++, Yacc, and Java.
You can locate the specified function in source files and move there
easily. It is useful to hack a large project containing many
subdirectories or many main() functions like MH, X, or Linux kernel.

License

GPL-3.0

Changelog

* Thu May 31 2012 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.2.4
[BUG FIXED]
- Built-in parser: When attribute specifier appeared immediately
after the `struct', `union' or `enum' keyword, GLOBAL could not
pick up tag name. Now it works correctly.
[CHANGES]
- New facilities:
- gtags: --single-update option support addition of a file.
- global: New --single-update option.
- gtags.el: New custom variables:
- gtags-ignore-case
- gtags-auto-update.
- gtags.vim: New custom variables 'Gtags_Auto_Update' (default 0).
* Mon May 28 2012 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.2.2
[BUG FIXED]
- configure: The --disable-gtagscscope option didn't avoid
building gtags-cscope completely. So, ./configure failed when
there is no curses library. Now it avoids building
gtags-cscope completely.
- htags: Imported a patch to fix htags on Windows Vista+ (tmpfile
wants to create its file in the root directory, which is not
writable by normal users).
* Fri Feb 24 2012 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.2.1
[CHANGES]
- gtags: New --accept-dotfiles option.
- gtags.el: Key mapping was changed to follow "Key binding
conventions" of Emacs Lisp.
[BUG FIXED]
- global: The -L option with '-' didn't work. Now it works.
- Pick up symbols in expression in enumerator-list as "reference
or other symbol".
- C/C++ parser couldn't handle typedef of the form of 'typedef
enum tag_name TYPEDEF_NAME;' correctly. Now, it works.
* Mon Jan 23 2012 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.2
[CHANGES]
- gtags.el: Added support for TRAMP. Now gtags.el works almost
transparently with TRAMP.
- gtags-cscope: Enables an environment variable EDITOR allow
options.
- gtags-cscope: New -i option.
- gtags-cscope.vim: New custom variable GtagsCscope_Kepp_Alive.
- globash: Added long name options
- gtags: Add keywords introduced in ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
- less-global: Quoting is required for the pattern which should be
interpreted by the shell.
[BUG FIXED]
- The icase_path config variable didn't affect the -c command with
the -P option of global. Now it works.
* Sat Oct 15 2011 coolo@suse.com
- add libtool as buildrequire to make the spec file more reliable
* Fri Oct 14 2011 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.1
[CHANGES]
- Now GLOBAL allows path names which include blanks.
- Now GLOBAL refuses looping symbolic links.
- global: the -c command accepts -T option.
- global: the -c command locates symbols in the directories in
GTAGSLIBPATH.
- global: New --match-part option.
- global: New environment variable GTAGSTHROUGH. If this variable
is set, the -T option is specified.
- global: New output format 'ctags-mod'. It is used in gtags.vim.
- global: New environment variable GTAGSBLANKENCODE.
- htags: Changed the cflow loader to accept "_' and HTML special
chars (&XXXX;).
- gtags.vim: Now allows the use of the -s and -r option at the
same time.
- gtags.vim: Now custom variables: 'Gtags_Auto_Map' (default 0).
- gtags.el: New custom variable 'gtags-grep-all-text-files'.
- gtags-cscope: New -a option.
- gtags-cscope.vim: New custom variables:
'GtagsCscope_Use_Old_Key_Map', 'GtagsCscope_Ignore_Case',
'GtagsCscope_Absolute_Path'.
[BUG FIXED]
- gtags.el: gtags-mode-hook and gtags-select-mode-hook were not
the last thing run when entering the mode. It has been fixed.
* Thu Sep 08 2011 puzel@suse.com
- update to global-6.0
[CHANGES]
- Now GLOBAL allows path names which include blanks.
- Now GLOBAL refuses looping symbolic links.
- global: the -c command accepts -T option.
- global: the -c command locates symbols in the directories in
GTAGSLIBPATH.
- global: New --match-part option.
- global: New environment variable GTAGSTHROUGH. If this variable
is set, the -T option is specified.
- global: New output format 'ctags-mod'. It is used in gtags.vim.
- global: New environment variable GTAGSBLANKENCODE.
- htags: Changed the cflow loader to accept "_' and HTML special
chars (&XXXX;).
- gtags.vim: Now allows the use of the -s and -r option at the
same time.
- gtags.vim: Now custom variables: 'Gtags_Auto_Map' (default 0).
- gtags.el: New custom variable 'gtags-grep-all-text-files'.
- gtags-cscope: New -a option.
- gtags-cscope.vim: New custom variables:
'GtagsCscope_Use_Old_Key_Map', 'GtagsCscope_Ignore_Case',
'GtagsCscope_Absolute_Path'.
[BUG FIXED]
- gtags.el: gtags-mode-hook and gtags-select-mode-hook were not
the last thing run when entering the mode. It has been fixed.
- do not install INSTALL file
* Fri Jul 01 2011 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.7
[CHANGES]
* global: the -c command accepts new -P and -r option.
* gozilla: Now support firefox.
* globash: Added two commands: d and rs.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* globash: The -l option in each search command was removed.
* gtags.el: Removed the default mouse key mapping in gtags-mode
and gtags-select-mode.
* Tue Jun 07 2011 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.6
[CHANGES]
* global: New option --literal
* htags: New --fixed-guide option
[FIXED BUGS]
* htags: didn't make FILEMAP file which is referred by Doxgen
* gtags-cscope: 'Find this text string:' didn't work correctly in
some cases
* gtags-cscope/Makefile: setting of gtags_cscope_DEPENDENCIES was
wrong
- use spec-cleaner
* Wed May 18 2011 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.5
[FIXED BUGS]
* The processing of the --ncol option was missing.
[CHANGES]
* gtags-cscope: re-implemented using cscope's code.
Now, it is almost compatible with cscope itself.
* Config variable 'suffixes' was completely removed.
Instead, config variable 'langmap' was actualized.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* Removed GPATH,GTAGS,GRTAGS,GSYMS and html/ from the skip
variable in gtags.conf file. From now on, gtags unconditionally
ignore the tag files. Though 'html/' was added for Windows, it
brought troubles for UNIX.
* Tue Mar 15 2011 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.4
[FIXED BUGS]
* htags: A certain kind of files which does not end with newline
bring segmentation fault.
* global: --from-here option didn't locate definitions in the
GTAGSLIBPATH.
* htags: Htags with the -g and -d option didn't work correctly.
[CHANGES]
* gtags.el: New custom variables:
'gtags-disable-pushy-mouse-mapping' and
'gtags-suggested-key-mapping'.
* gtags.el: Command gtags-parse-file was rewritten.
* gtags.vim: New custom variable Gtags_Use_Tags_Format.
* global: New optional files arguments for the -g command.
* global: New -V(--invert-match) option for the -g command.
* global: New --print0 option.
* global: New --file-list=file option.
* htags: New --html-header option.
* gtags.vim: Activate input completion also on the prompt 'Gtags
for pattern:'.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* htags: Ceases making ID database arbitrarily when the -g option
is specified.
* htags: The --no-map-file option was removed. Instead, new
- -map-file option was added. Htags doesn't make the mapping
files (FILEMAP, MAP) any longer.
* htags: The -c (--compact) option was deleted from the option list of the
- -suggest2 option.
* GLOBAL's commands locates gtags.conf also in the sysconfdir.
- drop global-5.9.2-fix-htags-makefile.patch (in upstream)
* Thu Mar 10 2011 coolo@novell.com
- switch to autoreconf for better libtool support
* Fri Sep 17 2010 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.2
o gtags.vim: Added -m(--vim) option to the show command.
o Renamed the -S(--secure-cgi) option to --system-cgi. This is
because the parameter of the --secure-cgi was changed in
GLOBAL-5.9.1.
o The site key directory for the --system-cgi option was moved
from datadir(/usr/local/share) to localstatedir(/usr/local/var)
because datadir should be used for read-only data. By default,
you must execute "cd HTML; sh bless.sh" as a root user, since the
site key directory can not be written except for root user.
- added global-5.9.2-fix-htags-makefile.patch (fixes build)
* Tue Jul 20 2010 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.9.1
- notable changes since global-5.8
o Caution:
This version of GLOBAL doesn't support tag files of the former
version. If you install this version, you should remake all
tag files again using gtags(1) in this package. Though new
gtags's speed has improved very much, you need not hurry up to
upgrade it if you have a lot of tag files of former version.
Thank you for your cooperation.
o gtags: New gtags.files file.
If a file called 'gtags.files' exists in the current directory,
gtags(1) treats it as a list of files which are candidates of
the target.
o Safe-CGI mechanism was modified.
o globash: New command.
o gtags, global, htags: Allows path name which includes blanks.
o gtags, htags: Changed the algorithm for detecting binary file.
o gtags: Added support of function layer plug-in parser by
Hideki IWAMOTO.
o htags: Added call-tree facility using cflow(1).
- clean up specfile
- add global-disable-plugin-example.patch
* Fri Feb 05 2010 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.8
o gtags: Built-in parser by Hideki IWAMOTO. This improvement has
shortened the processing time to about 1/3. Built-in parser is
not effective by default in this version. To use built-in parser,
please define 'use_builtin_parser' in your configuration file
o gtags.el: Single 'GTAGS SELECT MODE' buffer of gtags.el by Yushi
Oka. If "gtags-select-buffer-single" is non-nil, then 'GTAGS
SELECT MODE' buffer is kept single.
o gtags-cscope.vim: Plug-in script which integrates GLOBAL and vim
editor using cscope interface. Since this script makes vim think
GLOBAL is cscope, you can use the tag stack facility of vim like
cscope. Gtags-cscope can coexist with gtags.vim.
o gtags.el: the completion read in the gtags-find-file fails into
endless loop when the input string is NULL.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE]:
o gtags(built-in parser): In the existing parser (gtags-parser),
some symbols were stored in both GRTAGS and GSYMS. In the built-in
parser, all the symbols defined in GTAGS have been moved from
GSYMS to GRTAGS. New specification is more consistent, and useful
for efficiency improvement. If you feel this a problem, please
inform bug mailing list of your insistence.
* Mon Jan 04 2010 puzel@novell.com
- update to global-5.7.7
o htags: More accurate statistics mechanism using gettimeofday(2)
and getrusage(2).
o gtags: New --statistics option.
o gtags.el: Added completion support for the 'gtags-find-file'.
o global: Allows tag files in the system's root directory.
This does not recommend tag files to be put on the system's
root directory.
In some systems except UNIX, putting tag files there might be
suitable.
o The --from-here option didn't work with compact format
GTAGS (gtags -c).
* Fri Nov 13 2009 puzel@novell.com
- update to 5.7.6
- New options:
o gtags: --single-update=file
Update tag files for single file. It is considered that the file was updated,
and other files were not updated. This option implies the -i option.
If the file is new then --single-update is ignored, and the processing is
automatically switched to the normal incremental updating.
o gtags: --dump=tag-files
Dump a tag file. Output format is 'key<tab>data'.
* Mon Mar 16 2009 puzel@suse.cz
- update to 5.7.5
- Change of gtags:
- Revived the -c option.
If this option is specified, gtags uses compact format for GTAGS.
This option does not influence GRTAGS and GSYMS, because they are always
made using compact format.
If you think that GTAGS is too big, please use this option.
- Removed the limitation of the depth of the directory hierarchy.
- Changed not to do useless inspection for the files in the directories
which are listed in the skip list.
- rebased patches